Activist To Lead Anti-War Campaign

[Algorem]

Source: The Hartford Courant

Ex-Lamont Manager Coordinator Of Effort To Oppose Iraq War As Economic Disaster

By MARK PAZNIOKAS | Courant Staff Writer
March 18, 2008


The manager of anti-war candidate Ned Lamont's 2006 Senate campaign was named Monday as coordinator of a $20 million nationwide effort to oppose the war in Iraq as a continuing economic disaster.

Tom Swan is the manager of Iraq Campaign 2008, an effort to tie the war to an issue with a higher profile: the struggling U.S. economy...

Its launch coincides with the fifth anniversary on Wednesday of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the publication of a book by two economists, Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, who estimate that the cost of the war could range from $2.2 trillion to $5 trillion by 2017, far more than any previous estimate...


John Edwards, the former presidential candidate who has yet to endorse either Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton, also is affiliated with the new anti-war effort.



Read more: http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-ctswan0318.artmar18,0,407216.story

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